Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 11

il <) RDAY, e e GARRETT I'. SERVISS, The literature of rems is for the most part scattered through the narratives of travelers, among disconnected ¢ T of history, In memoirs of royal and im perfal court and in encyglopedias ™ basilisk eye of some great diamond flaghee in the dark background of a every famous event in teh history of southern Asia since Europeans began to explore it The names of some of these celebrated stones have become household words, and the sight or sound of them awakens feel ngs of undying curlosity, occaslonally mingled with the thrill of mystery. Such a gem (s the Great Mogul, which has i happlly been called “the meteor of dia monds." “Ldke the Regent and the Kohinoor, the Great Mogul was a product of the | Golconda district, having been found in the Cani mine, which was famous for its huge diamonds, though none ever proached this one in size. When discovered it Is said (o have welghed not less than 757 karats, but it was reduced by a gem cutter (o s. When it came from the handa, according to the only description and drawing which we have of it (those of Tavernier, the celebrated traveler who was an expert in gems), it was a hemispherical dome with a flat base, ap- parently an inch and a half in diameter ap: tter's and an inch and an eighth in height having ita surface eut into a “rose.” with about 18 facets. The first owner of the Great Mogul who can be traced is the Emir Jemla who, according to Tavernier, was a kind TR 3 Queen Anne of England, Who Did Not have Money Enough 'n cxistence The Romance of Famous Gems I'he Great Mogul ¥ The Diamound That a Queen Was Not Rich Enough to Buy. The famous traveler's description of to Buv the Great Mogul the big diamond elootrified his readers (Regroduced from an ol print.) In Burope, and has been guoted and en larged upon thousands of times by mod ern writers, hut so far as any record xlets, the wtone itgelf haa never since been seen " d into view for an natant and then flashed out agaln, truly stone's disappearnnce 1 itx fame, and has caused "TEMBER umberless e nds, pure inventions of the imag o cluster adout it. At tempts bave been made to identify it With the Kohinoor and other celebrated Indlan gems, but these have been shown 1o be groundiess, Tavernier's & rip- tion and rawing, which nobody seriously hallenges, show (hat the stone posseased eharacteristic res which would pre-| vent from being confounded with any § other known Wae It stolen, und then out up into mailer brilliants in order to baffle de tection, or wa it destroyed in some of the ware, or political upheavals, or palace nirigues, whic were so frequent In Hirdustan LU among the un wswered questions that have been asked concerning the fate of the Great Mogul Writers of v ance. of cour have elzed upon so notalle a mystery as & subject for their invention, and the Great Mogul has played the imaginary part of A mystic eye, of unparalieled brightness, Jdeaning mysteriously in the darkness of a many-columned cave on the forehead of an Indian !dol There Is & quaint quality in Tavernier's acconnt of the unskiliful cutting to which, in his opinion, the great gem had been subjected “It was Hortensio Borgis, a Venetian, who cut it. for which he was sufficiently badly recompensed, for when it was seen what he had done he was reproached with having ruined the stome, which should have remained heavier, and, in stead of paying him for his work, the king fined A 10,00 rupees, and would have taken more If he had possessed it It Bleur Hortensio had understood his business he would have been able to get several good pleces from this stone with- out doing any wrong to the King, and withcut having the trouble to grind it down, but he was an unekiliful diamond cutter.” Thomas Pitt, grandtather of the earl (ered the Great Mogul diamond when he of Chatham, is said to have been of- The Great Mogul Is a Diamoend Shaped Like a Gumdrop, a Little Larger and Far Heavier Than an Ordmary Cubic Lump of Sugar, and Was Cut Down from a Huge Diamond Crystal Found :in the Golconda Mine in India, of secret partner in the Golconda mines, ans such apparently got the lion's share of the output, for he became cele- brated for his {mmense stores of gems, and possessed, according to Keneral be- lief, 80 many diamonda that he counted them “by the sackful.’ found himself obliged to purchase the| was then reigning, and as a great factor was governor of Madras. The price is favor of the Shah Jehan of Delhi by|he was permitted to see the monarch’s #nid Lo have been fixed at $445,000, and presenting him the paragon of his collec- | collection of jewels, among which, and|Pitt is believed to have credited its real tion, the matchless diamond whose fame | chief of which, was the stone now known \‘ alue at that time at $4,000,000, was already spread abroad over India,|as the Great Mogul. Tavernier, as has | triotism would have liked to see the dla- | although few persons had ever seen the | been already remarked, was san expert mond go to Queen Anne, but her funds stone in gems, and his delight can be imagined | were generally at low ebb—for royalty— His pa- Amid the intricacles of oriental intrigue, 1661 Tavernier visited the court of | when le was allowed to take in his hand | and were not egual to the strain of buy- it came about that the Emir Jemla| Delhi, where Aurungzebe, son of Jehan,| and close Inspect *“the finest dlamond Ing the wrond-ous stone. ? By DOROTHY DIX. 1 get hundreds of letters from giris ask- me what they can do to make them selves admired by men. No one In the world is wise enough spe- cifically to answer this question and guaranteed rules for attracting the capricious mascu- line tancy, which, ke the wind, blow- eth where it listoth, and no one can tell when, or why, or where it listeth, Why some girls attract the admira- tion of men and others are passed over; why some women are born to be belles and others are foredoomed to be wallflowers, Is one of the faminine mywteries that have pussied every generation of women from Mother Eve down. But no woman has ever found out the answer to the riddle Some say that beauty Is the magnet that draws men. But this is not invaria- bly the case, for, pretty girls a § disconsolate, while homely giris b flockiug after them Money will occasionally buy a husband but it will not buy a girl beaus if she has no other attraciions than wealth Bocial position will not mive popu- larity, mor will fine clothes make her sought after, for we have all seen society Sirls sitting about at summer resorts solitary and a on trinksful of Parls clothes, while the girl who wa: a mere mobody, with only a few shabby frocks had to divide her admirers up in squads and run them on schedule time. e men ner me, Now 1, no more than any other woman, ean give a girl any rellable recipe for winnfng the admiration of men. But I can tell her why it is a great many girls are not admired. In the first place | to be admired by men generally falls he the girl who desires” On the other hand, a &irl makes & blunder if she atfects to disparage mascu- | taste in music {doubtedly |don’t be discouraged about a few weeks | 11 By Virginia Terhune Van de Water (Copyrght, 1915, Star Company.) It sounds wicked to say that religion fs one of the matters about which my husband and 1 have our bitterest quar rels. Nevertheless, this is true. My religion is & part of my 1 was brought up in & religiovs family Herbert was not. He went to church when he felt like it, and he did not feel ke it often. His people were not con- nected with any especial denomination. All of mine were One very life need not belong to any church to be a Christian, my husband often re- minds @me. I know this is true. Know- Ing It, 1 try not to be unhappy becauge Herbert s not a church member. Ie is & good man, vet his attitude toward sucred matters is very trying to me My bellef is as strong as yours,” he sald tly when I regretted his atti tude, “only take our religlon in a very different way we This was apropos of the fact that he had not accompanied me to church for | many Sundays. Each week I go through the form of asking, “Are you coming with me, dear?’ and each time he says, as i it were not ¥8 his custom to reply, “Well, no, dear; 1 think I'll stay at_home today.' “As you always do," 1 remarked dryly | the last time he made this reply It 1 do,” he argued, “what difference Don't Rush Into Marringe. Dear Miss Iairfax: 1 am a young girl | of 17 years and am going with a_young man my senjor. He is very fond of a married woman, but expecis to marry mo the latter part of this month. He nas no use for my mother, and he doesn't intend having me &0 to mwe any of my relatives after 1 am marrled to him. Would it be your opinion for me (o marcy him or reconsider the matter? AMELIA W, T certainly advise you against marry ing this man, who wishes to estrange you from your family. You are young and would do well to wait. Perhaps vou can bring him to take a different attituda both in regard to his own friendship and toward your people. Talk 1t Over with Her. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am 2 and I am | i love with a charming gl About two weeks ago I lost my position and have no prospects for another as yet Do you think [ should be attentive to this girl, os she has many admirers? State your case to your girl friend. You are far too young to be coneldering marriage at present, and it she is of a | stmilar age there is no reason why you | should feel that you are wasting hey time by being friends and no more. 1 you will have a position soon Why We Quarreled s | of idleness, !a blunder. doeg th make? It doesn't on LY It might help church 1 sald ‘1 don’t see it.' hard all the week day of rest. Moreover, mons bore me."” Then let's go to hear preacher.” 1 proposed he declined “Where's Bob?' he asked a Utes Iater as 1 started out alone 1a out small son, aged 10, He did not care to ko with me,’ I explatned. “He says that If you don't go e does not see why he need do 0." ‘A chip of the old block!" laughed my husband. “But T'll coax him to &o with you today.* Ho did, and Bob sulked all the way to the sanctuary and back. The next Sunday when I spoke of attending morn- Ing service 1 added 1 shall not take Heb. e doesn't like church, dear’” I added timidly, “you are setting him an example of unbellef. Of course, & quarrel ensued, in which my husband made the statement rocorded above. The discussion led nowhare, but left me 8o shaken that I, myself, stayed home, unhappy and wretched. Yet what can I do? Herbert says he hurt any one, de you it you went he objected. “T work Bunday is my one Dr. Blank's ser other But some hopefully. few min | belleves in God, and that he prays, some- times, when there is anything he wants very badly. “Not that I think it does much good,” he supplements skeptioally. but seek to terminate them a8 soon as possible. Walt Unt He is Free. Dear Miss Falrfax: 1 am 23 and have known a young man of 3. He married, but is going to be sepaarted in about six months from now, 1 have known him for five years, and he has always paid a | kood deal of attention to me, but I did not that About hin love moon us he is free children and loves them. He s providing a good home and money for them. He wants me to leave the oity, but I don't want to break my mother's heart, as I love hor dearly and love him, too. Shall | marry this man and do you think he will mako me happy. Ho wiys he has never been happy since the day he mar- ried his wife, and I want to_make him happy ROBLYN. Walt until this young man has his dt- vorce. You must not consider putting yourself in a position where the world can think unkindly of you. But when he is free [ moe no reason agminst your marriage. Burely he need not always be unhappy because his first marriage was Just wait patiently until he one moment ocon- until you go think hs meant anything, and for son 1 have tried to avold him. two weeks ago he told me of and asked me to marry him as He_also has two is free and do not for sider leaving your home as his wife from it to| Rob | = A Bit of Autobiography from the Wife Whose Husband Won't Go to Church, Is it right for me, a church membe; [to allow my child to be trained in such conditions? If this kind of thing con tinues Bob will consider religion a thing only for women and young children. ! can’t bear that thought. Besides thix it makes me a bit ashamed when my people ask me every Sunday where IHer |bort is, and I have to say, “At home. He ought to attend servies oftener {my father remarkes regretfully 1 know that he ought, but, If 1 instat, 1 but confirm him in his obstinacy and dis {inclination. 1 heard a olergyman say |once that nobody was ever scolded into |the kingdom of heaven. And 1 know |that if I wpeak harshly or try to drive | Horbert where he will not be led 1 am {not living the Christian charity that | |try to live, and am but defeating my own desire and purpose. Vet it is hard to speak gently always when my heart is %0 deeply concerned “Don't you ever take time to think of God? I asked Herbert on day, my voice trembling with unhappiness. ‘Why, yes,” he sald, carelessly, “of course 1 do.* In other words,” T mcoused, moved L indignation by his easy attitude of mind, ‘'you patronise Herbert shrugged his shoulders. “Al all events,” he rejoined coolly, “my be lief in Him does not have the offect on me that your religlon has on you. It doos not make me say the cruel things that you say. To my way of thinking, o man's faith is between his Maker and Him." himself, and if it's good for much it ought to make him tolerant of other people’s ideas.” T knew that my wicked impatience justifed this speech of his, and [ feit that that I had been false to my profession. Yet when my husband's mothor was very (Il he came to me with the an- wuished request that | pray for her re- covery. “And ask your pastor to pray, too!" he begroed. “Surely God will hear our pray- ers!™ To me It seems mean and cowardly to neglect the Almighty when life s bright and smooth, and then when you are In troublo to cry out for His help. But T a4 not say this to my husband. He was unhappy enough already. Nor did 1 ask him later, when his mothe- was well, if he had returned thanks for her recovery. As he had reminded me. that was a matter that should be be- tween God and himself. Fut knowing, as I do, how much religlon helps one to meet temptation and to live the square, honest life, have I not a right to expect my husband to uphold my bellefs to our child? T am not a good woman, but if 1 had not my faith I would be a worse one, It T am ever patient, forgiving, kind, It is because of my religion. Am T un- reasonable In wishing my husband to show by his life and speech the power of oternal things? If he will not do this, what about our boy's faith in the years to come? I And is it not a sin for & man and wife to quarrel about religion? The Four Red Hot 'R Toilet Goods Prices for snurhy Many a malden who really has ragtime ! has driven away the man | | tween two stools. She is overanxious, or line soclety and to undervalue masculine | she was trying to catch by rhapsodising | ewe she Is 00 inapproachable and coy. attentions. Romances are full of mislead- over “Parsifal.’ Many a woman, striv-| She either runs after men too much. or| Ing accounts of proud and scornful | ing to be bright, and amuse & man, bas | runs from them too fasi, and both plans beauties who had lovers sighing at their | cut her throat with her own wit, for no are fatal feet, who were as humbly grateful for | man can listen to a woman make sharp | glrl should never forget that, in every kind word from the nifty lady speeches about other people without won- theory at least, man is the pursuer and a hungry dog is for a bone | dering it he isn't going to be the next| woman the pursued. This is not always| This state of affairs does not obtain In| Victim as soon as his back is turned. true, but the girl's success depends on' real life, and the qiffident damsel who! And many a girl acares a prospective keeping up the delusion and maiking the thinks she renders herself irresistible by SUuitor away by bragging about her co often left man think that he is chasing her down. adopting a haughty demeanor and giving 4Uests, and telling what a heart-smasher | Nothing disgusts a man more (han for & every man who approaches her the frozen #he 18 No man is going to add his name | woman to throw herself at his head. face makes the mistake of her life. There | 10 the list of the Men-I1-Turned Down If 1t glves him the feeling of beins are too many fences down in other di-' he can help it | taken In and over-reached, and so, no reetions for men to break their necks| Still another reason why many girls matter how much a girl desires a man's| <caling turrets, after inaccessible mald-| &re not admired is because they are too attentions, she should go warlly and enk hard to please and demand too much. stealthlly about seeking them. Many &' Apother reason that many girls are| When a man shows a woman any cour- girl has broken off a promising love af- pot admired by men is because they try 68y, the only return she can make for fair by calling up a man over the tele-| to ghow off. They think they make It !s to &ppear to enjoy it. Many girls) phone dQuring business hours and by her (nemselves attractive by pos as forget this. If & man sends them violets insistence on his coming to see her. or cultured, or witty when in they wonder why he didn't send Ameri- | man llkes to feel that he is a free there is mothing n man is so. “An Heauties. If he sends them candy, agent In such matters, and that he can afraid of as a blue stocking except a they always prefer some other kind tha come or not as he pleases, and nothing woman who is a wit. Manv & poor girl the one he bestowed. If he takes them | makes a girl more unpopular than to g3t who never reads anything except the s'x 0 the thedter. they remark on how much the reputation of belng a grabber who hest sellers has blasted her chances in 'MOre agrecable the bpxes are to sit in never lets a man go once she gets her life by packing around u copy of Ibsen thun the orchestra seats clutches wpon him in her hands In a word, even the best is not good AR E TR, Ay TSy £ \ough for them. Now & man doesn't o3 Y L o T ” —— a woman attentic in order to win [ e e | T gratitude, nor does he expect an il- - . & R luminated resolution of thanks for every i Inspiration » Fy JANE WLEAN, Teny bt . doos ke us foo sy i ] efforty to give be pleasure have been L S =a appreciated, and that he gave her a good 1 beard you laugh t for nothing is more mortifying than Out 1n the crowded way e | that you have falled as a host And lo, a weary woman stopped to smile, t ¢ not inspiring to Invite a girl to ¢ a sandwich and a glass of beer, A newsboy sold a dozen papers, while I have her expatiate on how much A straying sunbeam touched your cheek in play be likes terrapin and champagne, or to | heard you laugh. uve her dilate when you take her out our moderate priced car on how she I heard you laugh. udores French limousines, and it (s small | ‘Twas in a darkened room wonder that the girls who are gullty of Where pain had made the hours seem drear and long, | these tactiéss blunders arc left alone And lo, the sickroom echoed with a song These are a fow of the reasons why e #irls are not admired, and th A breath of Spring that lightened all the gloom; | &re thirty-seven ather varieties of rea- I heard you laugh sons, each equally o t 50c Melba Cold Creams and Powders for a9 §0c Seely's Crabapple Blossom, f, | per oz 890 | S0c Lee's Llower Girl, at, ox 2 50c Rieger's Palo Alto Pink, at, psr oz .. &drus - 4B b0c Beely's Jockey Club, at, ox . @8 50e Extract Wood Violet, at, oz Madam Yale's Bemedies and Tol. lst Goods, any §1.00 srticle 59 ¢ Baturda~ for gy [l 26c Frostila for 40 60c Pompelan \Illllll- Cream 190 50c Bottle Bay Rum 850 | 5 cak Ivory or Wool Soap 195 | 2i¢ Banitol Tooth Powder .o Me b0c Malvina Cream ..a% B0c Java Rice Powder for . Mo | B0¢ Rickmecker's Cold Cream . .APo S0e Aubry Sisters’ Cold Creams, | Powders and Lotions for . .89 Rexall Dr 'DRUG STORE | PRICE LIST 2ic Alleock’s Porous Plasters 120 Hiromé Beltzer 90, 17¢, 29¢, 6% b0 Oastoria (genuine) . 180 | %be Cuticura Boap ..... ...A70 | 40c Canthrox ..a00 Fellow Byrup 840 | Hill's ‘ascara Quinine Horlick's Malted Milk, 390, 89, $1.00 Hyomel, complete . 8% 26c Hydrox Peroxide Cream 140 Hydrogen Peroxide, pure 14 Hontetter's Bitters 040 | Listerine 180, 190, 390, 5% | 50c La Blache Powder (4 shades), 380 | Mellin's Food 390, 640 | 26c Massatta Talcum 120 Mentholatum (genuine) 140 26c Mistletoe Cream 140 | 280 Packers Tar Soap 140 | 26¢ Pond's Vanishing Cream .....140 | $1.00 Pinaud’s Lilao Vegetal 890 %0c Pozszon! Powder 340 Rogers & Gallet Rice Powder 17 | Bal Hepatica 180, 340, 690 | 30c Bempre Glovine . ..89% 500 Scott's Emulsion .34 gbe Sani Flush . 170 28¢ Tis, for tender feet .. 26c 4711 Whi Smokers--Remember Saturday in Our Cigar Department 10c Rol Tan Be | 100 . Garcia, clear Havans, 4 for 880 | 16¢ Cubanoids, ¢ for 2o 1bc Reynaldp Grandiosos. each ..100 | Box of ten, 15¢ quality, foll wrappel. Manila Clgars for 830 Box of 60 Manils Regsalias for . #1. Ge Reynaldo, § for 100 Box of 60 Little Chanceliors 60 Henry Oeorge for 8o | L b0c (pint) can for ¥1.00 (quart) can for POMFEIAN OLIVE OIL | i ’ PURE DRUGS Fresh Epsom Balts, b Borie Acid, 1b. ... Witch Hasel, Pint Wood Aloohol, pint . Cream Tartar Bulphur us-nn- & box, two for .. Hinkls Tablets, 100 for .. Quinine Corsules, 3 dosen . Arom Castor Ofl (Honey-Ol) 100 Blaud's Iron Tonic Tablets 2 aoun A.m\n Tablets or r'.p-ul aii;:;;;ii i Cut Price Drug Sale at Stores ug Save Time, Save Money—Saturday Plenty of Goods and Full Force of Cheerful Clerks Cholce Fresh Candles Our Candy Department {s becoming a most fmportant one and so it should he when the very high quality of the “Original Package” Candies we handle, (s constdered. 60c Goodwill's Chocolates (In purple hox) Baturday - . 800 Ligrett's Hlect l‘hU(‘flll!al every plece containing a nut, fruit or no gat center), Ib. ..., Tainty Dutch Delight Liggett's Butter Milk Bitter- sweots, per Ib, $ 800 | Tiggett's Fruit Cordial Chocolates, | b, 800 1 b, .$1.00 We sell the original (Burr's) “Sat. urday Candy." There are over 100 different imitations now-— Oura (Barr's) is fresh every Satur- Aa 1 1b. and ‘ Rubbér Goods We buy our Rubber Goods dire:t | from factories and ocan guarantes | same to be in prime conditton, | Gooa Buib Syringe, 890 lousehold Rubber | Gloves, 8%e Two-quart Fountaln Byringe, 49 ipples, best kind, 8o Atomizers, 880 to §1.85 Rubber Ice 380 to 2.qt. Water | Bags ...490 | | Nwl' 1,000 sl articles in the Rubber | We have skilled saleslad: - | tors ‘in our Rubber Geods. Frase cri Bhoulder Brace Department. Some of | them have done this work for us for 13 to 15 years. Razor Blades Sharpened We sharpen Safety Razor Blades (all kinds). Leave them with the young ladies at the Perfume De- partment at any of our 4 stores. Sherman & McConneII’ 4 Rexall Drug Stores Sherman & MeConnell Drug Co., Streets. Owl Drug Co., 16th and Harney Streets, 16th and Dodge m-o luflh 1 m Harvard Pharmacy, 24th and Farsam Streots.